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Numbers 4:29
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27 “Aaron and his sons shall1 assign all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, all their tasks and all their service. And you shall2 appoint to them all their tasks as their duty.  
28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting. And their duties shall be aunder the authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  

Duties of the Sons of Merari

29 “As for the sons of aMerari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house.  
30 aFrom thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting.  
31 And athis is bwhat they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: cthe boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,  
32 and the pillars around the court with their sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings and all their service; and you shall aassign to each man by name the items he must carry.  
33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the1 authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”  

Census of the Levites

34 aAnd Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ house,  
35 from thirty ayears old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tabernacle of meeting;  
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Numbers 4:28-33

The Gershonites and Merarites are superintended by Ithamar, Aaron' s younger son, who had already had the oversight of the tabernacle in its construction Exodus 38:21. Thus, readily do the permanent offices of the leaders of the Israelite community spring out of the duties which, under the emergencies of the first year of the Exodus, they had been led, from time to time, to undertake.

Numbers 4:32

By name ye shall reckon the instruments - Or, assign them to their bearers singly, and "by name." These "instruments" comprised the heavier parts of the tabernacle; and the order seems intended to prevent individual Merarites choosing their own burden, and so throwing more than the proper share on others.


 
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